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Re: Search for a picture

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On 6 Nov 2025 at 6:02:22 pm GMT, "Martin S Taylor"
<hogwash@mRaErMtOiVnEstaylor.TcHoImS> wrote:

> On 6 Nov 2025, Graham J wrote
> (in article <10ehupl$12ii5$1@dont-email.me>):
> 
>> Martin S Taylor wrote:
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>>>> Belatedly, but dupeguru can set one folder (containing the one pic you
>>>> want to find) up as a "reference", and then you can tell it to search
>>>> another folder/the whole drive for dupes of it.
>>> 
>>> Belatedly, I can’t get this to work. dupeguru simply finds all dupes across
>>> both folders. Am I missing something, or did you misunderstand what
>>> “reference” means?
>> 
>> This appears to be doing what you asked it to do, but perhaps not what
>> you wanted.
>> 
>> If the "reference" folder contains exactly one file then there cannot be
>> any dupes in that folder. If the program shows all the dupes in all the
>> other folders then that is what you want - yes?
> 
> No, I want it to show all (and only) the files in the other folder which match
> the file in the reference folder. I don’t want it to show files in the other
> folder which match each other.

I think Graphic Converter was mentioned a long way upthread. I don't know if
you ruled it out as overkill, but It does seem to do what you want. €35.

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TimH
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